Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 8 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 9 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 10 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 11 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 62027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p><p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals" title="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 8 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 9 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 10 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 11 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 62027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p><p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals" title="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67efb49762b7f-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 62027,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 8 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 9 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 10 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 11 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 62027
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-TheWire.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &amp;ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &amp;ndash; were low.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&amp;rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &amp;ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot; title=&quot;https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p><p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals" title="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 62027,
		'title' => 'Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur',
		'subheading' => null,
		'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>
',
		'credit_writer' => 'TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur',
		'meta_title' => '',
		'meta_keywords' => '',
		'meta_description' => '',
		'noindex' => (int) 1,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => null,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 62027,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur',
	'metaKeywords' => 'MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY',
	'metaDesc' => '-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly...',
	'disp' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p><p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals" title="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 62027,
	'title' => 'Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur',
	'subheading' => null,
	'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>
',
	'credit_writer' => 'TheWire.in, 1 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'budget-2022-shows-how-quickly-we-forget-the-social-and-welfare-net-that-served-us-during-covid-avani-kapur',
	'meta_title' => '',
	'meta_keywords' => '',
	'meta_description' => '',
	'noindex' => (int) 1,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => null,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 8 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 9 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 10 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 11 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 62027
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur'
$metaKeywords = 'MGNREGA,MGNREGS,Union Budget,Union Budget 2022-23,Saksham Anganwadi,ICDS,Integrated Child Development Services,POSHAN 2.0,Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman,Pandemic,Social Sector Spending,PMGKAY'
$metaDesc = '-TheWire.in

With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.

Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly...'
$disp = '<p style="text-align:justify">-TheWire.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice.</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector &ndash; particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition &ndash; were low.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people&rsquo;s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21.</p><p style="text-align:justify">But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore &ndash; Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals" title="https://thewire.in/government/budget-2022-social-welfare-sector-covid-anganwadis-mid-day-meals">click here</a> to access.&nbsp;</p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Budget 2022 Shows How Quickly We Forget the Social and Welfare Net That Served Us During COVID -Avani Kapur

-TheWire.in With revenues of the government expanding significantly, this was an opportunity to present a more expansive budget. Unfortunately, the budget made a clear choice. Unlike last year, this year expectations from Budget 2022-23 with respect to the social sector – particularly with respect to schemes for nutrition – were low. While India relied heavily during the peak of the pandemic last year on its welfare architecture, trends on the release of funds by the Union government during the year already gave an indication that keeping the fiscal deficit in check would come at the expense of the social sector. Till December 2021, with more than three-fourth of the financial year completed, around half of the allocations had been released for many schemes. Take the example of two important nutrition related programmes: the Integrated Child Development Services (now a part of the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0) which provides basic education, health, and nutrition services for early childhood development and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (now renamed Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) which caters to 118 million school going children by providing hot cooked meals in government and government-aided schools. The presence of millions of frontline workers in schools and anganwadis allowed us to quickly ensure the delivery of rations and food security allowance directly into people’s homes. Yet, between April to December 2021, only 48% of the approved budgets for mid-day meals had been released. For ICDS, it was 52%. Therefore, it comes at no surprise that the allocations for mid-day meals are 11% lower than the budget estimates for the previous year. Similarly, even for Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0, allocations remain lower than the sum of its components even for the budget estimates of financial year 2020-21. But there were some surprises. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA) has been an important social safety net for many during the pandemic. Demand for work remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, though unmet demand (or the difference between employment provided versus demanded) remains high. As per latest data as on February 1, 2022, 7.7 million households that had demanded work have still not received it. Taking cognisance of this increased demand, the supplementary budget announced this year has allocated an additional Rs 25,000 crore to the scheme. Even today, Rs 12,852 crore payments for wages and materials are still pending. Accounting for it, the total expenditure under the scheme stands at Rs 105,774 crore – Rs 7,000 crore more than the revised estimates for the year. Please click here to access.